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Molecular diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Mozambique.

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Background

Mozambique is one of the countries with the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in Sub-Saharan Africa, and information on the predominant genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis circulating in the country are important to better understand the epidemic. This study determined the predominant strain lineages that cause TB in Mozambique.

Results

A total of 445 M. tuberculosis isolates from seven different provinces of Mozambique were characterized by spoligotyping and resulting profiles were compared with the international spoligotyping database SITVIT2.The four most predominant lineages observed were: the Latin-American Mediterranean (LAM, n = 165 or 37%); the East African-Indian (EAI, n = 132 or 29.7%); an evolutionary recent but yet ill-defined T clade, (n = 52 or 11.6%); and the globally-emerging Beijing clone, (n = 31 or 7%). A high spoligotype diversity was found for the EAI, LAM and T lineages.

Conclusions

The TB epidemic in Mozambique is caused by a wide diversity of spoligotypes with predominance of LAM, EAI, T and Beijing lineages.

SUBMITTER: Viegas SO

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2914001 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Molecular diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Mozambique.

Viegas Sofia O SO Machado Adelina A Groenheit Ramona R Ghebremichael Solomon S Pennhag Alexandra A Gudo Paula S PS Cuna Zaina Z Miotto Paolo P Hill Véronique V Marrufo Tatiana T Cirillo Daniela M DM Rastogi Nalin N Källenius Gunilla G Koivula Tuija T

BMC microbiology 20100721

<h4>Background</h4>Mozambique is one of the countries with the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in Sub-Saharan Africa, and information on the predominant genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis circulating in the country are important to better understand the epidemic. This study determined the predominant strain lineages that cause TB in Mozambique.<h4>Results</h4>A total of 445 M. tuberculosis isolates from seven different provinces of Mozambique were characterized by spoligotyping and resu ...[more]

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Molecular diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Mozambique.

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